A Killing Kindness

A Killing Kindness
Reginald Hill

‘Altogether an enjoyable performance, one of Mr Hill’s best’ Financial TimesWhen Mary Dinwoodie is found choked in a ditch following a night out with her boyfriend, a mysterious caller phones the local paper with a quotation from Hamlet. The career of the Yorkshire Choker is underway.If Superintendent Dalziel is unimpressed by the literary phone calls, he is downright angry when Sergeant Wield calls in a clairvoyant.Linguists, psychiatrists, mediums – it’s all a load of nonsense as far as he is concerned, designed to make a fool of him.And meanwhile the Choker strikes again – and again…

REGINALD HILL

A KILLING KINDNESS

A Dalziel and Pascoe novel

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For Dan and Pat

Contents

Cover (#ue1f27aa2-52d1-5cb4-a30e-c0aaa9e08bb7)

Title Page (#u362f26f3-59b5-5ba5-9950-6ebcd0b17e88)

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Dedication (#ulink_89e9e643-d249-5fa2-88b8-002bb0acce87)

Epigraph

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Chapter 2 (#ulink_3da50969-8e6d-55ec-b20d-45157b5321a4)

Chapter 3 (#ulink_9c80d1df-2aab-57dd-a827-d6a8b565d116)

Chapter 4 (#ulink_f9d164c7-e8f4-519a-9a4e-e5114bc74f3e)

Chapter 5 (#ulink_d28e1ac5-3076-5f54-ad83-10e0012a3994)

Chapter 6 (#ulink_9a6c1bf5-4390-53a7-b171-c8579839722d)

Chapter 7 (#ulink_a3afde94-f6d5-5fc2-ab60-fb2eed948c41)

Chapter 8 (#ulink_1775d794-c452-5fa0-870d-29988ed2b855)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 24 (#litres_trial_promo)